Definition, Meaning & Synonyms | English word QUERY

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Definitions of QUERY

1. A question mark.
2. A question, an inquiry (US), an enquiry (UK).
3. (computing, databases) A set of instructions passed to a database.
4. (intransitive) To ask a question.
5. (transitive) To ask, inquire.
6. (transitive) To question or call into doubt.
7. (computing, databases) To pass a set of instructions to a database to retrieve information from it.
8. (transitive, internet) To send a private message to (a user on IRC).
9. (intransitive, publishing) To send out a query letter.
10. A surname.
11. (publishing) Short for query letter.

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Examples of Using QUERY in a Sentence

• They store current and historical data organized so as to make it easy to create reports, query and get insights from the data.
• Google Search uses algorithms to analyze and rank websites based on their relevance to the search query.
• Many relational database systems are equipped with the option of using SQL (Structured Query Language) for querying and updating the database.
• Originally based upon relational algebra and tuple relational calculus, SQL consists of many types of statements, which may be informally classed as sublanguages, commonly: Data query Language (DQL), Data Definition Language (DDL), Data Control Language (DCL), and Data Manipulation Language (DML).
• Automatic repeat request (ARQ), also known as automatic repeat query, is an error-control method for data transmission that uses acknowledgements (messages sent by the receiver indicating that it has correctly received a message) and timeouts (specified periods of time allowed to elapse before an acknowledgment is to be received) to achieve reliable data transmission over an unreliable communication channel.
• That service can be anything from a memory fetch, to a disk IO, to a complex database query, or loading a full web page.
• Q fever or query fever is a disease caused by infection with Coxiella burnetii, The bacterium is an obligate intracellular pathogenic parasite.
• In these types of problems, one treats the oracle function f as a database, and the goal is to use the quantum query to this function as few times as possible.
• An object–relational database (ORD), or object–relational database management system (ORDBMS), is a database management system (DBMS) similar to a relational database, but with an object-oriented database model: objects, classes and inheritance are directly supported in database schemas and in the query language.
• To look up CD information over the Internet, a client program calculated a hash function from the CD table of contents and used it as a disc ID to query the database.
• When clicked, bookmarklets can perform a wide variety of operations, such as running a search query from selected text or extracting data from a table.
• The Access query (or enquiry) language is known by different names on different implementations of Pick: with English, Info/Access, Inform and Recall all being used.
• A Domain Name System blocklist, Domain Name System-based blackhole list, Domain Name System blacklist (DNSBL) or real-time blackhole list (RBL) is a service for operation of mail servers to perform a check via a Domain Name System (DNS) query whether a sending host's IP address is blacklisted for email spam.
• They play an important role in problems like probabilistic inference, constraint satisfaction, query optimization, and matrix decomposition.
• Automated reasoning – Solving engines, such as used in Prolog, which produce steps to a result given a query on a fact and rule database, and automated theorem provers that aim to prove mathematical theorems with some assistance from a programmer.
• The main application of relational algebra is to provide a theoretical foundation for relational databases, particularly query languages for such databases, chief among which is SQL.
• Subsequently, query languages for the relational model were called relationally complete if they could express at least all of these queries.
• Static sets allow only query operations on their elements — such as checking whether a given value is in the set, or enumerating the values in some arbitrary order.
• Some logic programming languages, such as Prolog, and database query languages, such as SQL, while declarative in principle, also support a procedural style of programming.
• In computer science, domain relational calculus (DRC) is a calculus that was introduced by Michel Lacroix and Alain Pirotte as a declarative database query language for the relational data model.

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